Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder defined by impairments in social and
communication development, accompanied by stereotyped patterns of behavior and …

Although the study of infancy has answered many important questions about the human
capacity for social cognition, the relatively young field of developmental social cognition is …

We examined the ontogeny of gaze following by testing infants at 9, 10 and 11 months of
age. Infants (N= 96) watched as an adult turned her head toward a target with either open or …

An intervention facilitated 3-month-old infants' apprehension of objects either prior to (reach
first), or after (watch first) viewing another person grasp similar objects in a visual habituation …

There is abundant evidence for the 'video deficit': children under 2 years old learn better in
person than from video. We evaluated whether these findings applied to video chat by …

It is often assumed that young bilinguals are lexically delayed in comparison to
monolinguals. A comprehensive comparison of comprehension and production vocabulary …

The authors assess the study of cognitive development and what it reveals about children's
ability to appreciate and cope with advertising. Whereas prior research on children and …

The perception of others as intentional agents is fundamental to human experience and
foundational to development. Recent research reveals that this cornerstone of social …

Although prior research clearly shows that toddlers have difficulty learning from video, the
basis for their difficulty is unknown. In the 2 current experiments, the effect of social feedback …

Two studies examined the robustness of vocabulary learning through overhearing by testing
48 2‐year‐olds in contexts in which a potentially distracting activity was present (Studies 1 …